Fighting privatization
The Green Party of Quebec strongly opposes any privatization of our healthcare system. On the contrary, the public healthcare system must be celebrated, strengthened and better financed.
- We believe that all Quebecers should have access to quality services that are fast and free. People's wallets should not be a limit on access to health care in the province.
Free dental and vision care
The Green Party of Quebec will implement free dental and vision care for all Quebecers. We believe that access to health care is a right.
Pharma Québec, universal coverage and drugs
The Green Party of Quebec proposes the creation of Pharma Québec, whose mandate would be to negotiate prices for imported drugs and manufacture these generic drugs at lower cost. We also propose to set up a prescription drug coverage plan to reduce inequalities in access for Quebecers. The cost of creating Pharma Québec would be amortized by the profits made over the long term by producing lower-cost drugs. We also propose to establish a better framework for so-called natural health products (NHPs). Many of these products are sold over the counter, with no knowledge of their effects.
Mental health services
- Introduce a program allowing free mental health services.
- Reduced prescription of medication for children's behavior, offset by access to psychologist services and smaller class sizes.
- Accelerating the fight against and prevention of suicide, through more training in schools, would enable more effective action against bullying.
- The creation of more accessible and adapted support resources for First Nations, created in collaboration with them.
Decriminalization of drugs
Proceed to the decriminalization of all drugs with the federal government, such a measure would allow :
- Redirect resources used in the fight against drugs to prevention and support for people with addictions.
- Remove the stigma that drives people to use these drugs alone in private, hidden and unsupervised settings, which more often than not leads to death in the event of overdose.
Legalization of drugs and nationalization of distribution
The Green Party of Quebec proposes complete legalization of drugs and state supervision of drug distribution, including chemically-produced drugs, to guarantee the safety and quality of such processed products. In addition, we believe that nationalizing distribution will remove a major source of revenue from organized crime, thereby reducing violence and illegal trafficking, while at the same time providing a source of income for the state. As with cannabis, we have no intention of promoting it, but rather of offering a safe supply to citizens caught up in addiction, and guiding them towards a gradual reduction in their addictive consumption.
Supervised injection centers
Fund supervised injection centers and create new ones in many regions other than Montreal. Ensure that these centers receive adequate funding, in particular to be more effective in dealing with the opioid crisis.
Creation of a pandemic management technician squad
The health crisis has shown us just how unprepared the healthcare system is to deal with a pandemic and the increase in the number of people needing care. To remedy the situation, the Green Party of Quebec proposes to create a squad of technicians specially trained in pandemic management.
Sports
We propose to better fund sports activities across the province, in order to combat the sedentary lifestyle and related health problems that are a huge problem in wealthy countries. These sporting activities will of course have to be combined with healthy eating habits, as well as regulations on products containing high levels of sugar.
Healthy eating
The Green Party of Quebec believes it's time for the government to take concrete action to encourage healthy eating habits among Quebecers. To do so, we propose :
- Organize a national campaign to reduce meat consumption, which is linked to a number of health problems.
- Encourage local food consumption across Quebec.
- Introduce healthy eating courses as early as elementary school. This enables students to be healthier, more active and better equipped to make healthy lifestyle choices.
- Ensure the diversification of meals during the week in schools by limiting, without entirely eliminating, meat consumption, increasing the consumption of healthy foods and offering more vegetarian and local alternatives.
Reform of compensation for victims of crime (IVAC)
- Provide financial assistance that takes into account the complexity of victims' cases. Financial assistance for victims should not be time-limited.
- Reinstate financial assistance for children born as a result of sexual assault. The current law is more restrictive than the previous one, and provides only for food aid, whereas the previous law provided for financial aid of up to 65% of the salary base.
- Reinstate lifetime assistance for victims, with medical justification. For victims employed at the time of the crime, Article 41 of the new law limits compensation to a maximum of three years.
- Reduce inefficient bureaucracy. For example, IVAC only receives documents by fax, unnecessarily slowing down the administrative process. Slow and inefficient administration is an additional stress factor for victims of crime.
- Allow the victim to choose the doctor who will assess his or her permanent after-effects (this is not currently the case; the IVAC currently chooses the doctor for the victim).
